Tuesday, February 6, 2007

In this previous blog entry I mentioned those plastic things that are put on top of pizzas to keep the box from touching the cheese.

I've found another use for them.

A lot of my plants are rather small and all are growing on a shelf near a window. Since so many of the plants are small and in small pots like the two in this photo I find it necessary to add something underneath the second row of plants so that the first row of plants doesn't block the available light. So I can use these plastic things to create "stadium seating" on my plant shelf and allow light to reach all of my plants. In the picture the plant below is a cutting of a cacti someone gave me that I'm trying to root. The plant sitting on the plastic table is actually two bulb offsets of Ledebouria socialis commonly called 'Silver Quills.' They're a good plant to grow in an indoor bulb garden.

If you're growing African Violets under lights these little pizza tables could help you raise some of the shorter plants up higher so that they're closer to the lights.

About Garden Hacker

Welcome to my Garden Hacker blog. I started this blog to post little tutorials for gardening that I'll call Garden Hacks. I started this blog as a joke because of all the blog/life hacker blogs that I'm a fan of. I'll be using this blog to post things that are different than what I post on my main gardening blog. Stop in once in a while and learn how to propagate plants or look for other gardening tips and ideas. If you have some of your own feel free to comment or tell me about your blog entry.